Appointed Republican Senator Tim Scott holds a big lead over Democrat Joyce Dickerson in his first election bid for a full Senate term in South Carolina. Scott picks up 53% of the vote to Dickerson’s 31%, according to a new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely South Carolina Voters. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate in the race, while 11% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 750 Likely Voters in South Carolina was conducted on July 9-10, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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